It is an exceptionally entertaining thriller with some deliciously surprising twists right up until the last second.
New York exceptionalism--exceptionally dangerous, exceptionally grouchy, exceptionally dirty--has been replaced by a well-scrubbed homogeneity.
Perhaps my most surprising hit is milo cake, an exceptionally light chocolate sponge made using Australian hot chocolate, the invention of pastry chef Geisa Carneiro, whose cooking CV includes The Wolseley in London.
That is not a huge shift but it is surprising given all the talk of an exceptionally strong recovery.
Given the student body at Stuyvesant, which is exceptionally diverse, and exceptionally brilliant, it's a little surprising that the subtitle of "Frontrunners" rings so true: "Even in High School, It's Politics as Usual".
There's even one exceptionally good performance, by a committed Milo Ventimiglia as a surprising Marine.
Christopher Reid's Nonsense (Faber £12.99) was, as usual with this exceptionally gifted poet, a reliable source of pleasure – grave, deft, subtle, oblique, surprising, touching.
("Fringe" is hard to top: after a slow start, it became an exceptionally thoughtful and moving series, and it took the "X-Files" formula in surprising directions).
Although matched with an exceptionally good fruit sauce, striped bass was poached to death: mealy and shriveled, a surprising gaff for this kitchen.
This is not a surprising result, considering that relapse confers a kind of resistance to chemotherapy that is exceptionally difficult to overcome except with aggressive therapies, like stem-cell transplantation [ 26].
